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Tori Amos Biography

Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos, August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range.

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I guess my husband is a muse as well.

Guess, Husband, Muse, My Husband

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.

Art, Book, Heard, Hearing, Ideas, Listening

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

Battle, Needed, Times, Way

I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.

Know, Mean, Soul, Telling, Thinking, Understand

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

Brother, Brothers, Law, Muhammad, Religious, Trapeze

I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

Able, Ketchup, Open, People, Tomato, Tomatoes

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

Forget, See, Things

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about. '

Mom, Mother, Talking, Tells, Used

I wanted to marry Lucifer. . . I don't consider Lucifer an evil force. . . I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano.

Evil, Lucifer, Music, Piano, Presence, Sits

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

Happy, Nuts, People, Thinking

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Deep, Monster, Monsters, Soul, Thinking

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

Darkness, Fear, Gay, Homosexuality, Issues

For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.

Cry, Express, Gun, Questions, Song, Years

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.

Become, Everyone, Potential, Reason, Want

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

Alive, Described, Lens, Lenses, Listening, Viewpoints

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

Classic, Crooners, Mother, Records, Store, Worked

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

Absolved, Asking, Like, Mean, People, Thinking

The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.

Americans, Art, Believe, Confused, Illusion

I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit. . . They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness.

Grateful, Having, Like, Nowhere, Song, Two

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Bleeding, Knees, Make, Trying, Violence

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